The key to good listening isn’t technique, it’s desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we’ll never listen well.
Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?
People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth.
Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day... random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.
I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive – even to come alive. Not loneliness.
Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they’ll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.
Yes, love your family, and also love your friends. For some friends are truly family. Love the people in your life. Love them without measure. And don’t worry about spoilage. Potatoes spoil, people don’t spoil.
We pay a tax to succeed at anything worthwhile. That tax is called dedication, and here’s the most wonderful part. Once you pay it, once you truly dedicate yourself to something important, you’ll find the price was worth it.
Learn as if you might live forever and you’ll live as if you might die tomorrow.
People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them.
But I’ve noticed, too, that prayer for some other people is less like a spare tire and more like a road map. It is not something tucked away in small compartment and rarely used. It is used constantly. These people understand how necessary a road map is if they are to ever get where they want to go. For them, prayer isn’t just for emergency use, but it guides them through the intricacies of life.
What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.
Are you living fully, loving completely, learning constantly and planning to leave a worthwhile legacy?
Inner light shines from love and compassion and faith. It illuminates and warms a world that, for many people, can be dark and lonely and confusing.
Memories are both helpful and hurtful and we decide which to keep alive.
What changes a life is not simply learning more, though education is important. What changes a life is making decisions – the best decisions you can make – and acting on them.
Human touch is vital. Without it, we wither. With it, we thrive. And it is good preventive medicine.
You’ve heard it said that what you see is what you get. But what I’ve discovered is that it’s not what you see, but what you think you see, that determines what you get.
What keeps you from the inner peace and contentment you crave now? Must life’s battles be fought and won before you can be satisfied?
Success and winning is often about victories won in the hidden recesses of the heart.